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...Soviet embassy threw its annual celebration of the Revolution of 1917 a few days ago, and the glitterati of Washington swarmed in as usual to the stone box of a building that hunkers down on 16th Street. The vodka was good (Stolichnaya), the few dabs of caviar were superb (from the Volga River) and the guests from the diplomatic corps, Congress, White House and the city at large elbowed each other cheerfully in the chandeliered rooms on the second floor of the elaborate embassy where tsarist Russia set up shop...
...Huygens correctly deduced the the ears of Saturn were a distinct ring, disconnected from the parent planet and slightly tilted as observed from the earth. From a terrestrial perspective the ears would periodically vanish because the angle of vision changed during Saturn's voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly 30 years). Wryly, Huygens speculated about the people who might inhabit these cold distant worlds: "It is impossible but that their...
...number of families will strain to get the money for Stanford or Harvard or perhaps Duke. I'm not certain that those families will strain as hard to get $8,500 or more for less prestigious private colleges such as Skidmore or Vanderbilt or Boston University - superb as those institutions are. Here sits a state university that feels like one of those private colleges, at a lower price for an out-of-stater, and in a state where one can become a resident within a year and pay in-state prices for three years...
When Harvard quarterback Brian Buckley has started this season, the Crimson is 6-0; without him, it is 1-2. On Buckley's sturdy 6-ft., 3-in. frame will rest the responsibility for penetrating the predictably superb--though vulnerable to the pass--Yale defense. Buckley has completed 75 of 134 passes for 982 yds. this season for 8 touchdowns, and has run for 3 more scores. But since his first start after mid-season knee surgery, the southpaw has not been at his best--with an ominous eight interceptions in Harvard's last two games...
Except for a game-long lapse in the rain at Dartmouth (which resulted in a 30-12 loss) and a seven-minute vacation down at Penn last Saturday (which allowed two quick first-quarter touchdowns), the defense has proved superb--almost without weakness. Despite a merely workmanlike pass rush, the Harvard front five (left end Dave Otto, left tackle Chuck Durst, middle guards Tony Finan or Scott Murrer, right tackle Tim Palmer and right end Justin Whittington) has been tough on the rush and awesome inside its own 20-yd. line. Linebacker Bob Woolway is a probable All-Ivy pick...